fear.less

A dance theater by Johanna Richter 

 

In Collaboration with the ensemble:

Conrad Ahrens, Erica D´Amico, Amie Jammeh, Jochanah Mahnke, Búi Rouch und João Santiago
Artistic Collaboration: Tim Bergmann
Stage: Mark Rosinski
Costume: Jörg Christel and Uwe Sinn
Light: Hans-Peter Boden
Sound: Philipp Kolb
Video: Tim Bergmann and Thomas Göbl
Fotos: Mehmet Vanli, Ufuk Aslan
Press / Munich: Kathrin Schäfer

 

Premiere:

New Globe / Schwäbisch Hall: October 28, 2021 / further performances October 29 and 30, 2021


Munich premiere:

Schwere Reiter : 11/26/2021 / further performances: 11/27/28/2021 at 8 p.m.


Another guest performance: TiK / Theater in Kempten January 27, 2022

 

Content of the piece

 

How close can we get? How can physical togetherness still look like at a time when we are constantly observing ourselves and have to derive what is currently relevant for us from an almost overwhelming flood of information? How do we deal with our fears? And how has the prescribed social isolation changed our relationship to our own human instincts?

The interdisciplinary dance theater piece „fear.less“ with three actors and three dancers illuminates the „present moment” of social life in the pandemic, which is characterized by fears and uncertainties, and at the same time searches for opportunities to playfully return to the greatest possible freedom of community and closeness . Identification and empathy between viewers and performers act as a powerful interaction and make this topic, which is current for both sides, directly tangible in the physical, universal language of the body. Accordingly, what moves us in the current exceptional situation, makes us speechless and powerless can be translated into this general, non verbal language. The stage becomes a platform, an immediate experience space, in order to create spaces of possibility out of fearful spaces and to play them on in a critical, humorous and situational manner.

 

Supporters :

In Co-Production with the Neuen Globe, Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall and den TiK Theater in Kempten

Sponsored by the Impulsprogramm „Kunst trotz Abstand“ des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

Sponsored by the Migrationsbeirat der Stadt München, the Bezirksausschuss München 09 (Neuhausen, Nymphenburg) the Bezirksausschuss 04 (Schwabing) and with „Projektmitteln“ des Kulturreferates der Landeshauptstadt München

Supported by the Merkur Gruppe and with personal thanks to Stephan Eckardt, for making the locations available.

With heartfelt thanks for the support to the new Schwere Reiter, the Tanzquelle  and the Circus Hub